A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks.
A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico but were recovered alive after a four-hour search, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in New Orleans said. It wasn’t clear how the two fell overboard. Their ship, Princess Cruise’s Grand Princess, had left Galveston, Texas, and was headed toward Mexico. The 22-year-old man and 20-year-old woman fell 50 to 60 feet from a cabin balcony.
With U.S. attack helicopters buzzing overhead, gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, and police said at least two people were killed in fighting in the neighborhood’s narrow streets and alleys. Roadside bombings, meanwhile, killed five U.S. soldiers, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital. The fighting in Baghdad started about 1:30 p.m. when gunmen attacked Iraqi army positions in the Fadhil neighborhood, on the east side of the Tigris River, police said.\nIraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, killing at least two people, police said. The fighting started about 1:30 p.m. when gunmen attacked Iraqi army positions in the Fadhil neighborhood, on the east side of the Tigris River, police said.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Saturday to impose additional sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium – a move intended to show Tehran that defiance will leave it increasingly isolated.
Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, citing the “illegal and bullying” U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium. Gholam Hossein Elham, a government spokesman, told state television that the suspension would “continue until Iran’s nuclear case is referred back to the IAEA from the U.N. Security Council.”
Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart was killed by her ex-boyfriend, dismembered and her body burned on a patio grill, authorities said Saturday. Investigators say Timothy Wayne Shepherd, 27, confessed Wednesday to strangling Stewart because he was angry she had begun a new relationship.
A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn. He was found guilty in April 2005 of felony mistreatment of an animal after he killed a horse with the intention of having sex with it. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail and two years of extended supervision on that charge as well as six years of probation for taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.
The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. “Across the board, American restaurants need to cut back on calories and salt,” said Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
